Raves and Reviews
“‘Night of the Living Dead’ set at Jurassic Park… erudite, atmospheric and at times genuinely creepy—a book to be read in bed, with the covers pulled tight.”
— New York Times Book Review
“Well-rendered characters and an original premise distinguish Dumas’s unnerving second thriller. Fans of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s Relic will relish this suspenseful and moving page-turner.”
— Publishers Weekly
“A moving, sorrowful story of secrecy, institutional rot, and the everlasting power of love and loss that even geological eons cannot diminish. The Paleontologist is a mixture of sober Gothic and B-movie flamboyance. It’s a family drama, a crime procedural, and a social critique, but did I mention the GHOST DINOSAURS?!”
— Esquire
“Attention, please, Blumhouse: here’s your next blockbuster. The Paleontologist is Night at the Museum as reimagined by Michael Crichton and Stephen King – an extravagantly fun creature-feature, a shivery haunted-house chiller, and an unexpectedly moving meditation on grief.”
— A. J. Finn, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window
“A tremendously entertaining book that I could not easily shake. Dumas provides such an original take on horror that it practically begs to fall within its own special genre. It is impossible not to be enthralled by this gripping novel.”
— BookReporter
“A cross between Night at the Museum and Jurassic Park with a dash of Poltergeist, The Paleontologist will chill you to the bone and terrorize your dreams. Luke Dumas has crafted a harrowing tale that’s scary enough to make you stop reading, but curious enough to force you to keep going.”
— Best Thriller Books
“[Audiobook narrator] Graham Halstead shines in this psychological thriller because he creates a unique voice for each character . . . He is consistent and entertaining throughout the well-paced story.”
— AudioFile on the audiobook edition